Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown, George Loring | 
George Loring Brown (1814-1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. The motives of his pictures are usually Italian, and there is... | 1814 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Brown, Harrison Bird |
Harrison
Bird Brown began his career as a modest beginning as a sign painter. He later
turned to painting and established himself as one of the most celebrated
landscape painters in Maine during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Brown spent the greatest portion of his life in Maine, and his works often
depicted the wholesome outdoor... | 1831 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Brown, John George |
Born in
Durham in northern England, John George Brown studied art while training as a
glass-cutter in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; he continued his studies at the Edinburgh
Royal Academy. After a short stay in London, Brown emigrated
to the United States in 1853, studied at the National Academy of Design, and
opened a portrait studio in Brooklyn, New York.... | 1831 - 1913 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Brown, John Henry |
John Henry
Brown
(Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, 1818-1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Brown's
prolific career illuminates the fate of antebellum miniaturists. He began an
apprenticeship in 1836 to the painter Arthur Armstrong (1798-1851) while
working as a clerk in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Recorder's Office. In 1839
Brown established himself as a... | 1818 - 1891 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Brown, Mather | 1761 - 1831 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 | |
| Brown, William Mason | 1828 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Bruce, Patrick Henry |
A pioneer
in the development of abstract painting, Patrick Henry Bruce focused on the
still life in his explorations of the boundary between representation and
“pure” painting. Bruce was a descendent of American statesman
Patrick Henry (1736–1799). He began his art studies at the Richmond Art
School at the age of sixteen. In 1902 he moved to... | 1881 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Brumidi, Constantino |
Constantino
Brumidi (July 26, 1805 – February 19, 1880) was an Greek/Italian-American
historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work in the Capitol
Building in Washington, DC.
Parentage and early life
Brumidi was
born in Rome, his father a Greek and his mother an Italian. He showed his
talent for fresco painting at an early age... | 1805 - 1880 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Brush, George de Forest | 1855 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Buck, William Henry | 1840 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
